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Nepal turns the tables on rhino poachers
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The man tipped to follow the Castros in Cuba
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US budget cuts are threatening to hold up a terrorism trial for Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law, a New York court hears.
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Scientists reveal new insights into how the Gulf of Mexico's natural processes degraded oil-related compounds after the Deepwater Horizon spill.
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An impassioned President Barack Obama urges US lawmakers to vote on gun control legislation that appears to be stalling in Congress.
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Ten years after Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled in Baghdad, a former SAS man hopes to sell a piece of it for charity.
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During the 1980s, the special relationship between Britain and America was elevated to heights.
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Jimmy White beats China's Tian Pengfei 10-7 to keep his hopes of qualifying for the 2013 World Championship alive.
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Uhuru Kenyatta is set to be sworn in as Kenya's new president, following his victory in March against Raila Odinga.
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The Falklands War veteran Simon Weston pays tribute to Baroness Thatcher saying she was a great leader who gave Britain something to be proud of.
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Tensions and hostility surround Syrian refugees in Lebanon
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Is everyone in Mozambique's boom town a winner?
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India deploys aerial drones over Kaziranga National Park in Assam state in an effort to protect endangered one-horned rhinos from poachers.
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Tamara Rojo, the artistic director of the English National Ballet, says missing Ukrainian ballet dancer Sergei Polunin is "in Moscow and is OK", following his sudden departure from a London show.
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The French government says ministers must declare their assets by 15 April, in a new transparency drive sparked by a scandal over tax evasion.
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Ten years ago American tanks entered the Iraqi capital and pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein.
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Thirteen people, including a two-year-old boy, are killed in Serbia by a man on a shooting rampage in a village near Belgrade, reports say.
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Conservationists fear Kenya's lion population could soon die out as humans encroach further into their territory.
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Tributes are being paid at home and abroad to Baroness Thatcher, the UK's first female prime minister, after her death at the age of 87.
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The UN says it is reopening all of its food distribution centres in the Gaza Strip after angry protests caused operations to be suspended.
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Australian surfwear firm Billabong is to start talks over a possible takeover by a consortium led by its former US boss Paul Naude.
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The village of Xinchao, in China's eastern province of Zhejiang, seems an unlikely place to start an energy boom - but resident have learnt that beneath them lies a vast potential supply of gas.
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Thirteen people, including a two-year-old child, are killed in Serbia by a man on a shooting rampage in a village near Belgrade, reports say.
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President Barack Obama clears the way for the US to give military assistance to Somalia, saying it would "promote world peace".
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Mikhail Beketov, a Russian journalist who campaigned against government corruption and suffered brain damage from an attack in 2008, dies.
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North Korea warns foreigners in South Korea to take evacuation measures in case of war as Japan deploys anti-missile batteries in Tokyo.
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Iran says it has begun operations at two uranium mines and a uranium ore processing plant, furthering its capacity to produce nuclear material.
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Roger Ebert, the celebrated US film critic and writer, who died of cancer last week, is laid to rest in his native Chicago.
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The US Navy says it plans to install a laser weapon on one of its ships, which can shoot down small aircraft such as drones.
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A Pakistani court adjourns a treason case against former President Pervez Musharraf, rejecting pleas for it to be delayed until after May elections.
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North Koreans fail to report for work at Kaesong Industrial Complex, suspending one of the few points of co-operation between the Koreas.
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A fresh leak of radioactive water is detected at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator says.
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Saudi Arabia denies reports that a court in the kingdom has ordered a punishment of paralysis for a man who caused the paralysis of a friend.
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Japan has deployed Patriot anti-missile batteries in the centre of Tokyo over growing concern that North Korea may be preparing a new missile test.
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Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces trial at the ICC, is sworn in as Kenya's new president, witnessed by dignitaries and tens of thousands of people.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon warns the Korean crisis may become "uncontrollable", as North Korea warns foreigners in the South to consider evacuation.
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US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew urges countries with the "capacity" to do more to boost consumer demand, following talks with Germany's finance minister.
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The office of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez will be turned into a museum, according to his chosen successor Nicolas Maduro.
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Thirteen people, including a two-year-old boy, are killed in Serbia by a man on a shooting rampage in a village near Belgrade, reports say.
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Russian authorities launch a legal action against election NGO Golos, accusing it of being a "foreign agent" under a controversial new law.
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Belgium complains to the EU about the low wages paid by some German employers, calling it unfair "social dumping".
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A shortlist of ten authors including Haruki Murakami and past winners Michel Houellebecq and Andrew Mille are up for the lucrative Impac Dublin Literary Award.
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The leader of the Iraqi wing of al-Qaeda says his group will merge with al-Nusra Front in Syria under a new name.
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Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in as Kenya's new president, following his victory in March against Raila Odinga.
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The leader of Egypt's Coptic Christians accuses the country's president of "negligence" following deadly clashes outside the main cathedral in Cairo.
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An aide to Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan is freed after being kidnapped nine days ago outside the capital, Tripoli, officials say.
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France begins to withdraw troops from Mali where they have battling Islamist militants, the French defence ministry says.
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Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik defends his predecessor, Radovan Karadzic, against war crimes at The Hague.
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A Toronto women celebrating what she thought was a 40,000 Canadian dollar ($39,428; £26,000) lottery prize had in fact won C$40m, officials say.
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A lifelike robot that replicates the actions of humans is helping test future clothing for the US military.
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New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion is to be presented with the Carrosse d’Or from the Society of Film Directors at next month's Cannes Film Festival.
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Five Indian peacekeepers escorting a UN convoy in South Sudan and seven others are killed in an ambush by rebels, the UN says.
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Four-time winner Tiger Woods is paired with England's Luke Donald in the opening two rounds of the Masters.
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Tens of thousands of Colombians in several Colombian cities march to support the current peace talks with left-wing rebels from the Farc.
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What really killed Syria's most famous sheikh?
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The US Air Force begins grounding about a third of its combat squadrons in response to automatic deep budget cuts that began in March.
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An archaeological dig in the heart of the City provides a unique insight into the first 400 years of London's Roman history, experts say.
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A Catholic nun pleads guilty to stealing $130,000 (£85,000) from rural churches in the state of New York to fuel a gambling addiction, police say.
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Saudi Arabia builds a giant border fence to seal off its frontier with Yemen as security deteriorates after the 2011 uprising, officials say.
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A student is in custody after a stabbing rampage that wounded 14 at a college in the US state of Texas, police say.
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Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr describes "unabashedly racist" comments made by the late Margaret Thatcher in her retirement.
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Real Madrid survive a late onslaught from Galatasaray to reach the Champions League semi-finals with a 5-3 aggregate win.
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Saudi Arabia is building a fence, over 1,000 miles long, in order to seal off its troubled frontier with Yemen.
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The US Senate is set to hold a crunch vote on Thursday on whether to debate a gun control law, as a conservative blockade of the bill begins to splinter.
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UK researchers develop an air-dropped projectile to put instruments in some of the most inaccessible places in Antarctica.
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